The story
- Classical Persian · derived fromسرنا
- Turkish · borrowed fromzurna“woodwind instrument”
- English todaysurla
A variant of Turkish zurna (“woodwind instrument”), from Classical Persian سرنا (surnā); see there for more. Cognate with English horn, Latin cornu (“horn”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.